Restaurant workers alarmed by open-carry display, police say

[TexasTowelie]

Fort Worth, Texas -- Last month, open-carry proponents made headlines as they made their points before the Arlington City Council.

The conversation about the rights of Texans to openly carry guns in public came to Fort Worth early Thursday evening, which caught the attention of some fast-food employees and police.

Members of the group Open Carry Texas planned to conduct a demonstration in the Home Depot parking lot off of Interstate 35W in south Fort Worth.

But first, the participants wanted to get a bite to eat at a nearby Jack in the Box restaurant.

That's when things got scary for some restaurant workers, according to Fort Worth police.

"Upon arrival, officers discovered a group of six males carrying rifles," Sgt. Raymond Bush said in an email. "The men reported that they were conducting an open-carry demonstration.

"Officers spoke with Jack in the Box employees who reported that they feared for their lives and believed they were being robbed. They locked themselves inside a freezer for protection out of fear the rifle-carrying men would rob them."

More at http://blogs.star-telegram.com/crime_time/2014/05/restaurant-workers-alarmed-by-open-carry-display-police-say.html .

[Hoyt]

1. Can't wait for photos of the ignorant gun nuts.

[djean111]

2. Silly employees.

Don't they know they are supposed to wait until someone carrying a gun actually shoots them, before being afraid?

[DJ13]

3. Texas summer heat, and long lines filled with gun carrying people

What could go wrong?

[immoderate]

4. If they were properly armed they could have stood their ground!

Though it's a little hard to make sandwiches that way.

--imm

[Skittles]

5. "Home of the Brave"

where people have to be armed to go to a fast food joint - it's pathetic

[flying rabbit]

7. Sums it up

Doesn't it?

[kairos12]

6. Only in Muerica.

[blkmusclmachine]

8. Does Starbucks still encourage open carry of rifles into their coffee shops???

[drm604]

9. These idiots want to get people used to seeing guns being carried.

Suppose they succeed and people get used to it. When genuine bad guys with guns show up, people won't run or call the police because they'll assume it's just more open carry true believers. That's not good.

[mbperrin]

10. Do these so-called men not have jobs nor families to attend?

I can't think of anything stupider than an open-carry demonstration, unless it would be a YouTube video on self-castration, demonstrated awake on the maker of the video.

Hmmm, perhaps some combination.....